#hominins — Public Fediverse posts
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The idea that Neanderthals were brutish, stupid, and less well adapted than Homo sapiens and other Homo species has been well debunked. This is more evidence.
#Science #Evolution #Hominins https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/neanderthals-drilled-cavities-to-treat-a-toothache-59000-years-ago/
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
#HackerNews #firewood #use #hominins #Middle #Pleistocene #archaeology #ancient #technology
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
#HackerNews #firewood #use #hominins #Middle #Pleistocene #archaeology #ancient #technology
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
#HackerNews #firewood #use #hominins #Middle #Pleistocene #archaeology #ancient #technology
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
#HackerNews #firewood #use #hominins #Middle #Pleistocene #archaeology #ancient #technology
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
#HackerNews #firewood #use #hominins #Middle #Pleistocene #archaeology #ancient #technology
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Chimpanzees resemble us humans more than I thought.
They, too, can be divided into groups that attack each other to kill.From a BBC article:
«If chimpanzees - one of the species closest to humans genetically - could do so without human constructs of religion, ethnicity and political beliefs, then "relational dynamics may play a larger causal role in human conflict than often assumed", [Sandel, an anthropologist from the University of Texas in the US, and co-director of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project, and his colleagues] added.»Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers
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Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar
Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/never-mind-band-aids-neanderthals-had-antiseptic-birch-tar/#ancient-people-did-stuff #anthropology #antibiotics #archaeology #herbal-remedies #hominins #neanderthals #paleoanthropology #science -
Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine – SAPIENS
Before the biochemistry of fermentation was scientifically understood, the magical transformation of grape juice into wine was seen as the work of divinities. With its ability to lift the spirits…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanWine #Wine #español #history #Hominins #Mediterranean #Paleolithic
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2560950/turning-points-in-the-evolution-of-wine-sapiens/ -
Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine – SAPIENS https://www.diningandcooking.com/2560950/turning-points-in-the-evolution-of-wine-sapiens/ #español #food #history #Hominins #Mediterranean #MediterraneanWine #Paleolithic #Wine
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Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine – SAPIENS
Before the biochemistry of fermentation was scientifically understood, the magical transformation of grape juice into wine was seen as the work of divinities. With its ability to lift the spirits and encourage conviviality, friendship, and even lov…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanWine #Wine #español #history #Hominins #Mediterranean #Paleolithic
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2560950/turning-points-in-the-evolution-of-wine-sapiens/ -
Lindsay Nikole is an awesome at talking and presenting science in a fun, approachable way! Her "The Evolution of Us" series is absolutely fire, I learned quite a bit from the material that she went into detail during each video.
Ghost Hominins DNA is a wildly fascinating concept and I might yoink that idea in future fantasy story.
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This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art
The world’s oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/this-67800-year-old-hand-stencil-is-the-worlds-oldest-human-made-art/#anthropology #archaeology #australia #cave-art #hominins #human-migration #indonesia #rock-art #sahul #science -
The Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals Is Found, in Morocco - Archaeology
https://archive.ph/Bkwrd"A hominin at the root of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans too is discovered where predicted, in Africa, from precisely 773,000 years ago"
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7-Jan-2026
Early #hominins from #Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of #HomoSapiens
773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, #Neanderthals, and #Denisovans -
#NetMassimo #paleontology #paleoanthropology #hominins #fossils #SahelanthropusTchadensis #Sahelanthropus
An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports the results of a study concluding that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was capable of walking on two legs approximately 7 million years ago. A team of researchers examined available fossils of this early hominin, concluding that its species had some adaptations for bipedalism.
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This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. ❲Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.❳…
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/this-is-the-oldest-evidence-of-people-starting-fires/#archaeology #firestarting #hominins #making-fire #neanderthals #science -
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires We didn’t start the fire. ❲Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.❳… https://s.faithcollapsing.com/fu001#archaeology #firestarting #hominins #making-fire #neanderthals #science
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New synthesis of 1,200+ fossils from the Omo–Turkana Basin reveals uneven timelines, shifting habitats, and a richer early Homo record than expected. A landmark recalibration of a key region in human evolution. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #Hominins https://www.anthropology.net/p/shifting-landscapes-shifting-lineages
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#paleontology #archeology #hominins
An article published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)" reports the results of the analysis of a bone fragment from which enough DNA was obtained to attribute it to a Neanderthal. A team of researchers led by Emily Pigott of the University of Vienna, Austria, examined this bone fragment discovered at the Starosele archaeological site in Crimea.
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Ancient hominins in Italy butchered elephants 400,000 years ago and turned their bones into tools
A new paper published recently in PLOS ONE has uncovered evidence that early humans who inhabited the region near present-day Rome butchered a giant elephant around 404,000 years ago, ate its meat as food, and used its bones as tools...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/hominins-butchered-elephants-400000-years-ago/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Hominins #pleistocene #casallumbroso
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🐘🔨 Researchers at #Sapienza University in #Rome discovered evidence that #hominins butchered straight-tusked #elephants 400,000 years ago and fashioned their bones into large tools when stone was scarce.
The Casal Lumbroso site contains over 300 elephant skeletal remains with impact fractures suggesting deliberate bone tool production, though whether #Neanderthals or earlier species were responsible remains unclear.
#archaeology #prehistoric #paleontology #evolution #science #italy
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Budianto Hakim and colleagues have published in #nature seven flaked stone #artefacts from the Early #Pleistocene found in situ on the Wallacean island #Sulawesi / #Indonesia. They date the find horizon to 1.04 million years but state that it possibly may be as old as 1.48 million years. Hence, this is currently the oldest evidence of #hominins crossing ocean straights to get to new territories.
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Ancient stone tools suggest early humans inhabited Sulawesi more than a million years ago
Ancient humans lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at least a million years ago — 800,000 years…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #ancienthumans #archaeology #AU #Australia #fossils #hominins #humanancestor #humanevolution #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia #stonetools #Sulawesi
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/49003/ -
29-Jul-2025
How much time did our ancestors spend up trees? Studying these #chimpanzees might help us find out
A study on savannah-living chimpanzees suggests the need to move safely on thin tree branches could explain why early #hominins that could walk upright kept their tree-climbing adaptationshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1092228
#science #primates #evolution #ecology #behaviour #anthropology
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31-Jul-2025
Changes in #diet drove physical #evolution in early #humans
Study: #Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human #fossil record -
(07 Jul) Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
The find may require rethinking the so-called “Bamboo Hypothesis.”…
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/n2keq
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/eie6z#ancient-people-did-stuff #archaeology #denisovans #hominins #homo-erectus #homo-heidelbergensis #science #wooden-tools
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AO THROWBACK - A new study has shown that Homo sapiens creativity genes set us apart from Neanderthals, leading to advantages in mental flexibility, cooperation, and longevity. https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/homo-sapiens-creativity-0015228
#history #ancient #AncientOrigins #historymatters #historyfacts #historylovers #archaeology #mythology #evolution #creativity #hominins
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#paleontology #paleoanthropology #hominins #fossils #Denisovans
Two articles, one published in the journal "Cell" and one in the journal "Science", describe two exams conducted on the so-called Harbin Cranium, a fossil discovered in Manchuria, northeastern China, dated at least 146,000 years old. A team of researchers recovered fragments of mitochondrial DNA from the dental calculus still present on the skull and proteins.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2025/06/26/new-study-attributes-the-harbin-cranium-to-a-denisovan/
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18-Jun-2025
Before dispersing #OutOfAfrica, #humans learned to thrive in diverse #habitatshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087445
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“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”
The dark side of paleoanthropology.
#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers
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#paleontology #paleoanthropology #fossils #hominins #HomoFloresiensis
An article published in the journal "Nature Communications" reports a study on new fossils belonging to the hominins called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed hobbits found at the site of Mata Menge, on the island of Flores. A team of researchers examined these new fossils dated to about 700,000 years ago and concluded that the species Homo floresiensis could descend from Asian Homo erectus.
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Here is a #differentview.
#Humanancestors and #apeancestors may have evolved in #Europe not #Africa
#8millionyearoldapeskull #hominins #Cankiri #Turkey
#AnadoluviusTurkae
Hominins spent over 5 million years evolving there and spreading to the eastern Mediterranean before eventually dispersing into Africa, probably as a consequence of changing environments and diminishing forests
Early hominins are not seen in Africa until around 7 million years ago.
https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/an-8-7-million-year-old-ape-skull-suggests-that-human-and-ape-ancestors-may-have-evolved-in-europe-not-africa/articleshow/103332097.cms -
"We conclude that carnivores (probably bears) had limited access to the hominin bones and complete bodies were probably placed in the site."
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Taphonomic skeletal disturbances in the Sima de los Huesos hominin postcranial remains. New research by Nohemi Sala et al.:
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25197#paleoanthropology #fossils #paleopathology #hominins
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#Behavioral #modernity is a #suite of #behavioral and #cognitive #traits that #distinguishes #current #Homo #sapiens from #other #anatomically #modern #humans, #hominins, and #primates. #Most #scholars #agree that modern human #behavior #can #be #characterized by #abstract #thinking, #planning #depth, #symbolic behavior (e.g., #art, #ornamentation), #music and #dance, #exploitation of #large #game, and #blade #technology, #amongUs others.
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Members of our species were in Western Europe around 54,000 years ago - Enlarge (credit: Slimak et al. 2022)
According to a recent stu... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1835595 #paleoanthropology #humanexpansion #humanmigration #anthropology #neanderthals #archaeology #outofafrica #pleistocene #hominins #science
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The oldest hominin fossil ever found in the Levant - Enlarge (credit: Barash et al 2022)
When the first members of ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1831793 #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #humanmigration #anthropology #archaeology #homoerectus #outofafrica #thelevant #hominins #science
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At least 2 hominin species lived at Laetoli site 3.6 million years ago - Enlarge / A human relative left these five tracks in a 3.6 million-year... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1818035 #paleoanthropology #australopithecus #humanevolution #anthropology #a.afarensis #archaeology #itsnotbears #bipedalism #footprints #maryleakey #hominins #science #laetoli #lucy
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Is the “Dragon Man” skull actually from a new hominin species? - Enlarge / The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right). (credit: Ni et al. ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1778075 #paleoanthropology #ancienthominins #extincthominins #humanevolution #anthropology #neanderthals #archaeology #denisovans #hominins #science #skulls
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By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave - Enlarge (credit: Italian Culture Ministry)
Archaeologists in Italy recently une... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763816 #paleoanthropology #extincthominins #anthropology #neanderthals #archaeology #ancientdna #hominins #science -
Sex with Neanderthals was common for early Eurasian Homo sapiens, DNA says - Enlarge (credit: Hajdinjak et al. 2020)
DNA from the earliest Homo sapiens in E... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1755625 #ancienthominins #humanevolution #humanmigration #paleogenomics #anthropology #neanderthals #archaeology #ancientdna #hominins #science -
Humans reached Saudi Arabia at least 120,000 years ago - About 120,000 years ago, two or three people walked along the shore of a shallow lake in what... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1707697 #ancienthominins #humanmigration #archaeology #outofafrica #pleistocene #saudiarabia #footprints #hominins #science
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This 1.4 million-year-old hand axe was chipped off a hippo femur - Enlarge (credit: By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7448... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1691207 #homininevolution #paleoarchaeology #ancienthominins #hippopotamus #archaeology #homoerectus #paleolithic #stonetools #acheulean #ethiopia #hominins #science
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Anthropologists describe the first skeleton of a Homo naledi child - The excavation was a mixture of spelunking expedition and paleontology field trip yet provided enou... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1666248 #paleoanthropology #homininevolution #ancienthominins #dinaledichamber #humanancestors #humanevolution #anthropology #homonaledi #hominins #science
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Long after some hominins were bipedal, others stuck to the trees - Enlarge / The excavation site where the bones were found. (credit: Georgiou et al. 2020)
We alrea... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1664227 #paleoanthropology #australopithecus #homininevolution #ancienthominins #humanancestors #humanevolution #archaeology #hominins #science #femurs
